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February 22, 2012 6:24 PM
Introducing Page Rules: Advanced Caching (Including Configurable HTML Caching)
On Monday, CloudFlare officially announced Page Rules. The new feature allows you to customize behavior on a page-by-page basis. The previous two blog posts have outlined how you can turn off CloudFlare's features based on URL patterns, or accomplish advanced URL forwarding....
February 20, 2012 11:57 PM
Introducing Page Rules: Fine Grained Control over CloudFlare's Features
CloudFlare is provisioned by DNS. That means that, from the beginning, you've been able to turn CloudFlare on or off on a subdomain level. From the CloudFlare DNS Manager. Often, however, users have wanted finer-grained control. ...
December 16, 2011 8:28 PM
CloudFlare Uses Intelligent Caching to Avoid the Bot Performance Tax
In 2004, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot. The site, which tracks online fraud and abuse, primarily consists of web pages that report the reputation of IP addresses. ...
November 08, 2011 4:34 AM
Wow, That's Fast! Instant DNS Updates and More...
At CloudFlare, we're constantly trying to make things faster. To give you a sense, at our current scale, for every 1 millisecond (1/1000th of a second) we remove from requests through our network, we save a lifetime (70 years) worth of time every year....
October 21, 2011 5:33 AM
A Brief Primer on Anycast
I wrote a blog post the other day about CloudFlare's globally distributed DNS infrastructure and how each ninja name server we give you when you signup doesn't represent just one machine, but instead a whole cluster of machines in each of the data centers we operate worldwide. ...
October 19, 2011 2:45 AM
Stayin' Alive
We've been making a lot of improvements deep within CloudFlare that you'll start to see the benefits of over the coming weeks. As the changes graduate from our tests to full production, we'll try and give you a sense of what they are and why they're important. ...
October 17, 2011 11:10 PM
Robust, Free DNS FTW
Most people don't think DNS is very sexy, but it's critically important to the functioning of the Internet. At its core, the purpose of DNS is to turn a domain that humans can read (example.com) into an IP address that computers can read (192.0.43.10)....
October 03, 2011 2:30 AM
Combining Javascript & CSS, a Better Way
The conventional wisdom in web performance circles is that you want to combine multiple javascript and CSS files. The reason for this is that there is significant overhead every time you setup a new HTTP request. More requests, more wasted overhead....
August 18, 2011 5:46 PM
SXSW Panel Picker: Powered by CloudFlare
Each year, the SXSW Music, Film and Interactive Conferences (sxsw.com) solicit session ideas from the community for the upcoming event using Panel Picker. After submissions are collected, PanelPicker launches a voting interface that allows the world to pick what sessions they'd l...
July 13, 2011 9:40 PM
CloudFlare's Free CDN and You
CloudFlare gets a lot of questions about caching and our free CDN (content delivery network), so I thought I would put together a really quick guide about what CloudFlare caches and more....
June 18, 2011 11:35 PM
An All New (and Improved) AutoMinify
We turned on AutoMinify as a beta feature a while ago, but we weren't particularly happy with it. Originally, we did it the same way everyone else does: we'd request the resource from the origin, serve it unminified on the first load, cache it, and then......
June 14, 2011 3:01 AM
App a Day #10 - Zoompf Web Performance Optimizer
The Zoompf Web Performance Optimizer (WPO) is a cloud-based front-end performance scanner which analyzes your website for over 380 performance issues which are slowing it down. ...
May 10, 2011 10:04 PM
Google Analytics: Now with Site Speed
Last week Google Analytics announced that they would begin integrating Site Speed tracking. This is an awesome new way for site administrators to see how well their pages are performing. CloudFlare has always been a fan of Google Analytics. ...
May 09, 2011 6:52 PM
W3 Total Cache (W3TC): Total CloudFlare Integration
CloudFlare is excited to announce that the WordPress performance plugin W3 Total Cache (W3TC) now fully integrates CloudFlare's performance and security. CloudFlare and W3TC's missions are aligned: making sites perform as fast as possible....